Motivational Quotes

Life

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Life

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

26.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.